Roman Ruins in Strange Locations 

I love real life historic easter eggs.

This was so fun to watch evolve in real time on twitter, and even better when expertly crafted into a new Trey video

Considering La Berta is from the late Roman Empire, and the fact that the tower is made from cobbled stones, I would guess that she was looted from some other building and then just simply used as a cheap impromptu building stone. During the end of the classical period and in to the early medieval era, it wasn't uncommon for old roman structures to be cannibalized for construction.

Little fun story, back when I lived in Italy, in the region of Liguria. There was a Hospital me and my family went. But the thing about the hospital is that it was built on top of a Roman mosaic. So the Hospital itself was on top of a platform and below it you could see the Mosaic. also across the road there was a Theatre (the semi-circular ones). but that's a very common problem with the Italian government trying to build new stuff

My Mum was worried you had died when you posted that picture of yourself in that gutter thing. She loves your videos.

Your explanation for La Berta is a lot cooler than my first thought: My mind immediately went to the idea of them using old stones while constructing the tower including a broken bust.😅

You would probably enjoy Evora in Portugal. People lived in the region for 3000 years and it has everything from stone circles, Roman temples, Moorish tiles, medieval buildings and modern construction. Incredible city.

It's so nice that people from outside of Europe (especially southern Europe) seem to be really excited about this kind of things, because we southern Europeans tend to dismiss these peculiarities since they are part of our everyday life, and seeing your video makes me realize how cool they actually are :)

Awww ye. An upload from TREY makes a great day.

This is something fascinating to me. What we consider ruins of an ancient civilization, an untouchable museum piece, it wasn't for people from 1000 years ago. They probably seemed like garbage to them, something to destroy and rebuild on top of. As you say, many people pass by there without taking it into account, unaware that those ruisn have been there for thousands of years. It's like we see abandoned buildings or shopping centers today, they're old places that no longer have meaning for us. Sometimes are demolished to build other malls, or remodel them by destroying the original structure. But if the buildings were preserved for another millennium, they would become an important source of information for people of the future. How many of our city landscapes will be the same in a few centuries? Something similar happens in Mexico City where there are still some remains of Tenochtitlan.

I love small interesting places like this. I live in Hungary, and study archeology. On a trip to Budapest's Castle our professor stoped us at every single archeological age brick and told a mindblowing story about it. It's also kinda morbid, on an other trip we went into someone's backyard and there was a a bunch of roman graves with skeletons behind glass. Love your videos, you partially inspired me to study archeology.

I’d imagine a lot of these rulers would feel humbled to know just how far their kingdom and then empire went even after they died and how much of it is still around and recorded even after it fell

I'm gonna do some archeology on this video itself! At the time of around 6:09, a strange artifact is visible climbing up the far right of the screen. This is the remnant of a more ancient draft of the video, still peeking through the cracks of this present day version.

It's crazy that the many invading tribes saw those walls, perhaps Hannibal himself knew of the walls despite just barely seeing the city from afar.

"This lump has quite the story" - Only a handful of channels can deliver such a statement with such authenticity.

That repurposed hunk of wall theory makes sense. Here in Chicago, after The Great Chicago Fire, materials and even parts of brick walls were reused and integrated into replacements. You can even see a few such places where the bricks radically change in an uneven line on a wall, or very old bricks made into sidewalks. And after the fall of Rome there was all this old ruined stonework just laying around doing nothing, so they would have every reason to just use that.

ahhh this is so nice and chill. I love la Berta, she's beautiful. we have actually cracked the code for roman concrete, I do hope that it can be used again for its amazing self-repairing powers when rained on- mineral deposits dissolve in the rain, fill the cracks as a liquid, then becomes solid rock again as the water evapourates, perfectly repairing any crack the water can get into. brilliant tbh

The Man, The Myth, The guy who created my childhood has uploaded!

Hey! I'm from Lucca, really happy to see you visited! Also the walls surrounding the city are in part built upon the roman ones, it can be seen in some places

Hey Trey, nice to see you again on RU-vid! 🎉 This was actually very entertaining to watch. I think most of us will look forward to more history vlogs from you!

Trey really reignites my love for history with each upload

Imagine your legacy residing inside a mcdonalds lmao.

Between the funny and slick editing, cool architecture, amazing stories, And the over the garden wall ending? This may be my new favorite video made by you. Thank you ❤🎉

I love the way that medieval people in a way preserved Roman history while still adapting it to modern use by keeping the same shape and even building blocks of the old coliseum.

This is so cool! I've seen many videos of the Italian and greek streets where ruins are littered about and countless news articles discussing construction companies' wishes to completely destroy ruins because they're in the way of construction after discovery, but it makes me happy seeing all the buildings that incorporate the ruins into their construction. Like living history, only made to fit contemporary use!

The McDonald's wall reminds me of a place I visited in Tallinn, Estonia, where there was a modern McDonald's inside a possibly 18th/19th century building, across from a medieval fortification. Also, part of a crumbling Roman wall next to a very modern shopping mall in Exeter, England. Really neat!

I'm glad you enjoyed your adventure in Greece! I'm very glad to see you're back as well :D

Wait till bro finds out about all the ruins beneath Mexico City and the whole valley of Mexico area 😄 So much spolia used in some of the buildings like La Berta, some of the most interesting are the ones with Aztec glyphs denoting dates.

Love Garrets videos and all things Roman, thanks for the upload! Ancient Rome Live is another great channel for all things ancient Rome

I live near another village in northern France (Normandy, Basse). In this part of the country, we assumed the romans never really built anything significant there. However, three decades ago, they discovered a whole city right under a village. It started with a merchant's house, some therms, a few pillars here and there. But my favourite one is that time when some rich couple who worked in the bank industry were building their house, a lifelong project I was told, because they found remains of a roman vase while digging there. Turns out they've found the house of an acient bloke and they had to stop everything for YEARS just to unearth the damn thing.

A couple other places: there are some places in the parking lot under via Roma in Turin where you can see roman walls ruins. The second is better known: Siracusa's cathedral was once a greek and roman temple and it is very evident from the columns inside of it. PS: if you need help with the translation you have but to ask! 😊 Great video as always!

4 Trey videos in a year. Good lord.

Fantastic to have you back TREY! Such an interesting video, never throught a random head in a wall and a monument in mcdonalds could be so engaging

This was the best thing ive watched all week. Ancient history is fascinating, and im glad you took me along to show me what youve found. Good show as always. Be safe brother.

I missed La Berta when I visited Florence years ago. What I thought was super cool was going underneath the cathedral to the medieval and earlier layers of archaeology, to the Roman layers.

I do love me some TREY the Explainer! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!

My school, a classical gymnasyum in Zadar, Croatia, has the remains of a roman sewage in its' basement. It is also located just north west of where the ancient roman forum used to be. Love my city so much

This video is a testament to all the cool historical stories that exist right under our noses.

Welcome back! I cant wait to see all about your adventures in Greece. Thanks for the video!

I've been subscribed to you for probably a decade now. Congrats on 1M subscribers 🎉

Always a good day when Trey uploads

6:18 Imagine going to this alley in the middle of the night, touch the boulder, and then look up to see Trey's silhouette ready to attack

Great timing! I was just thinking about you the other day and wondering where you disappeared to. Plus I've been watching Told In Stone due to Tarnished Archeologist shouting him out in a video a while ago, and I was just watching his lesser known Roman ruins videos the other day. Glad you're back!

I've been following your travels on Twitter and what you've shared really goes to show how much the modern world is built on the foundations of the old. It also goes to show the engineering prowess of ancient Rome, that nearly 2000 years after their original architects and masons have died their work lives on in one form or another, and will probably outlast us in the modern age.

I'm a long time watcher, but I just subscribed yesterday, and bang, new video!

I like that i can tell that you’re happy with the way you talk :) good to have you back!

I was literally about to finish a marathon of all your videos and then I see this one, perfect timing

This was awesome! Thanks, Trey. Can’t wait to hear more about your travels.

This is the sort of historical content that I've been pondering and have been intrigued with for a while now. The many mundane things that have stood with longevity are amazing glimpses of what once was. From things like layouts of streets and blocks, to that stone arc we have at our current campus, which used to be the entryway/gate/door of the school's old campus in a different location

Thing like this makes it evident why living in the shadow of an ancient, collapsed empire is such a common trope in fiction.

Wonderful video, I got to live in Florence in the past year and walked by la Berta to get to class everyday 🎉

It would be interesting to do a follow-up video on Roman frontier ruins given they were strange since their inception fusing the local culture with that of Rome, having their own currency, etc. Crimea and the Amber road to modern day Lithuania is a good example of this as roman currency and goods are still being found as north as Estonia to this very day

A little off topic here, Trey, but I noticed on your Twitter recently that you were also a kaiju fan. It was super cool to learn that my favorite history youtuber is also in kaiju and Japanese tokusatsu stuff. Much love.

RU-vid has stopped alerting me to new videos from channels I'm subscribed to, so I generally only check things once a week at most. Today, I logged in, saw that blue dot next to your channel, and had a little "!" pop up somewhere above my head. Your vids always make my day.

Man, your videos always improve my day. Thank you!

Yooo I love Told in Stone! Thank you for shedding some light to that channel Trey!

Great to see you back!

Thanks! Interesting.Things hidden in plain sight are fascinating fun to see and know about. Good to hear from you again.

The little song at the end never fails to make me smile hahah

Over the garden wall is such a banger

OMG I'm so happy to see a new video of yours!

In vacation in greece right now and was watching your videos on repeat. Blessed with this gem now :)

Dear Trey, La Berta is basically an example of "spolia". It's just reused stone. You can find spolia all around the mediterranean.

Welcome back Trey! Can’t wait to see what you have for us. Great video as always.

I am so happy you are back! Easily one of my top 3 channels 😊

Yes!! I’m glad you enjoyed the time you were gone. I love your content!

Thanks for this great video, Trey. You always find interesting topics to talk about and you do it in such an entertaining way. Can’t wait to see more from this trip you were on. And let’s hope you get to 1 million very soon!

It’s always a good day when Trey posts a video, thank you for your hard work brother.

I love doing this, despite the fact that I also live in a country full of archeological sites in the middle of more modern things (I should be accustomed to it, like my fellows countryman, but I insist on it). Come to Portugal one day, and please keep with this type of videos.

Awesome cover of Into the Unknown Trey! Gotta be one my favorite shows ever, keep up the great work! 🙏

Awesome video! In Szombathely, Hungary, there is an archeological dig going on right underneath a bank in the city center. The floors of the lobby in the bank are transparent, so you can look straight down to see some Roman ruins!

Awesome, just got back from my trip to Italy, and since then my fascination with the Romans has grown.

love your videos man, keep doing amazing work ❤

love a new episode of Trey's bizarre adventures

Always a pleasure when Trey uploads

But what about the McDonalds with the skeleton under the floor?!? "In Frattocchie, some 12 miles south of Rome, the famous American restaurant chain features three skeletons and a 2,000-year-old Roman road that was discovered in 2014 when the McDonald's was being built."

Things like La Berta bring me to tears in a way I can’t explain. I don’t know why I experience emotion like that at the mere thought of all of history’s potential little secrets and unknowns like that. An ancestral thing maybe, like it’s in my DNA to feel connected in that way. It brings me back to the first time my interest was sparked to human history (particularly in the way of common everyday life back then) which oddly enough was when I first played Assassin’s Creed II (by which time I was already about to graduate high school - as a historian I bloomed late) and interestingly enough, features that very same building in-game, a church I thought I knew everything about but had never heard of La Berta until you mentioned it here. As a likewise queer aspiring historian with a particular interest in late antiquity your channel has been my latest obsession. Your content has made being stuck at home for the last year with a disabling injury bearable in a way that nothing else has. Sorry for over sharing but I really geek out on history and archaeology. Thank you so much for sharing your unique wealth of knowledge. You are a gem!

Love that you shouted out toldinstone, he is one of my favorite RU-vidrs along with you, keep up the amazing work Trey ❤

The idea of a face on a wall just there for the sake of looking down on people is so awesome! I want a wall where every stone on the outside has a face on it, that would be metal as hell

Loved seeing all your travel pics/experiences on twitter, so happy to watch another video too!

welcome back trey, always love learning about roman architecture

Love your stuff, even the shorter videos. Hope to see a recap of the Greece trip aswell. Almost 1million!

I needed a short post-rehearsal watch to get me ready to sleep and stumbled upon this gem! What a lovely video! Well done!

Dude, you are about to hit a MILLION subs! I have watched your videos for like six years now, thank you for what you have done to little lives like mine across the corners of the world

I was on a school trip to northern Italy this April and Luca was one of the cities we visited. As soon as we entered Plaza del Anfiteatro I recognised that one episode of Top Gear had been filmed there. I was ecstatic for the rest of that day. Such an incredible feeling

Glad to have ya back!!

Glad you’re back!!! Don’t let us pressure you too much, love is true !!

Many late roman and medieval structures are built using older ruins, statues, tombstones, etc. If you ever go Barcelona, look closely at the old roman walls near and around the city cathedral. It's littered with roman inscriptions and reused columns. Previous to the Chrisis of the III Century many cities lacked walls, but with the growing civil wars and external attacks, emperors and local governors rushed to fortify the economic and popularion centers.

this was great as always :-] i always love having your videos on when i'm drawing!!

Good to see you're back!

It is so good to have you back, Trey!

I missed youuuuu. I loved how there's literally roman ruins everywhere in Europe ❤❤❤❤ told in stone!!!!

This is how it feels to take your friends to Disney World when you watch Defunctland

Today is a good day! 3 of my favorite channels randomly posted!

I was half-expecting something like "whoah dude, Roman ruins in Wyoming!"

So good to see new video from you, dude.

I love when he sings at the end of his videos

So glad your back!

Congratulations on your travels! And as always, thank you for the video :)

I love toldinstone! Glad you took inspiration from him for this video I love this kind of content. 10/10